[186692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband Router Comparisons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Reynolds)
Sun Dec 27 23:17:20 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:12:25 -0600
From: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
To: Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Based over what has been leaked, announced, or passed as pork barrel since
9/11, its probably time a tin foil hat factory was created to speed up the
issuance of said hats.
On Dec 27, 2015 10:10 PM, "Hugo Slabbert" <hugo@slabnet.com> wrote:
> On Sun 2015-Dec-27 20:58:18 -0600, Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
> wrote:
>
> And now that the new bill has passed, they (along with many others) will =
be
>> "mishandling" your data often and legally with 3 letter agencies and oth=
er
>> corporations. :(
>> On Dec 27, 2015 8:48 PM, "James Downs" <egon@egon.cc> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> > On Dec 27, 2015, at 09:43, Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hence: https://on.google.com/hub/
>>>
>>> The device looks cool, and sounds cool, but what data does google end u=
p
>>> with, and what remote management can they do? Their policy pages aren=
=E2=80=99t
>>> exactly clear, and they=E2=80=99ve mishandled personal data a number of=
times
>>> previously.
>>>
>>>
> Probably wise to be keep the tinfoil hat within arm's reach, I think. My
> ref was strictly "yep, they appear to be making a play at the home
> controller market via a broadband router trojan horse" and not in any way
> an endorsement or comment on the merits of the device.
>
> --
> Hugo
>
> hugo@slabnet.com: email, xmpp/jabber
> PGP fingerprint (B178313E):
> CF18 15FA 9FE4 0CD1 2319 1D77 9AB1 0FFD B178 313E
>
> (also on textsecure & redphone)
>
